Maria Carter
Editor, Harvest Public MediaMaria Carter grew up in a small town in the Missouri Ozarks. She graduated from Reed College in Portland, Ore. with a degree in economics. After a year off, she returned to her home state to study journalism at the University of Missouri, receiving her Master’s degree in 2004.
Maria started working at KCUR as an intern and was later hired as a general assignment reporter, covering local politics and anything else happening in the Kansas City area. In 2006, she spent a month in northern Louisiana, lending a hand at the local public radio station and covering the thousands of evacuees temporarily in the area. She was KCUR's morning newscaster for six years before becoming news director in 2014.
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Thousands of meat processing workers have tested positive for COVID-19, meatpacking plants that closed now must reopen, and hog producers are faced with no market — and no room — for their animals. -
Kansas City is painting the town red ahead of Sunday's big game.The Chiefs host the Tennessee Titans at 2:05 p.m. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium in the AFC…
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On November 5, voters in Kansas City, Missouri, chose to reverse the city council's decision to rename Paseo Boulevard after Martin Luther King, Jr. and…
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A Jackson County sheriff’s deputy has been charged after shooting a woman in the back while trying to arrest her in August. Jackson County prosecutors on…
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As lesbian, Native American Sharice Davids unseated a four-term Kansas Congressman and state Sen. Laura Kelly chalked up a decisive win over Kris Kobach…
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Syed Jamal, a Lawrence, Kansas, scientist arrested in January for overstaying his visa, will be able to present his case to an immigration judge,…
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Henry County 911 Emergency Communications said in a statement late Friday afternoon that a database error may have led to Clinton, Missouri, police…
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Kansas City did not make the short list to be home to Amazon’s second headquarters.The $5 billion project, known as HQ2, will bring 50,000 high paying…
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The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding $1.6 million to the Hispanic Economic Development Corporation of Greater Kansas City, or HEDC.The grant,…
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Kansas City is launching an effort to be the home to Amazon’s second corporate headquarters.Amazon plans to plow more $5 billion into building another…
